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Heritage President DeMint being pushed out? (Read "why"!)
The American Thinker ^ | April 29, 2017 | Rick Moran

Posted on 04/29/2017 8:16:56 AM PDT by onyx

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To: RummyChick

I think he was sick of dealing with the RINOS.


61 posted on 04/29/2017 4:58:19 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: onyx

Is there anything the Heritage Foundation has done to preserve this republic lately? Anything? What is it’s worth?


62 posted on 04/29/2017 6:24:19 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Drain the swamp. Build the wall. Open the Pizzagate. I refuse to inhabit any safe space.)
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To: SaraJohnson
Heritage created Romneycare which devolved into obamacare. So they have had a leftist problem for a long time.

Yes they did. They wanted the mandate to be an insurance policy purchase or posting a bond i.e.self insure. YA how did that work with the MA legislature...

63 posted on 04/29/2017 6:46:02 PM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: onyx

DeMint committed two cardinal sins.

He is a solid conservative.
He allied himself with Trump.

A Democrat has to be practically convicted of murder to lose his job.


64 posted on 04/29/2017 8:07:21 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: T-Bird45

Which Heritage document is that?


65 posted on 04/29/2017 10:21:29 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/27/trumps-budget-owes-a-huge-debt-to-this-right-wing-washington-think-tank/?utm_term=.1a5c2fecba58

http://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/report/blueprint-balance-federal-budget-2017

I was wrong about when it was created. It was created last year.


66 posted on 04/30/2017 2:02:43 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: RummyChick

Codespeak for “...got his weasel stuck in the zipper...”

Notice how it is never female politicians who quit to spend more time with their family. I would have a lot of respect for a politician who quit to spend more time with hookers and drinking whisky. LOL.


67 posted on 04/30/2017 4:09:59 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: onyx

After DeMint leaves, the way will be clear for a merger with the Brookings Institution ...


68 posted on 04/30/2017 7:48:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: onyx

Then that means they now have the money in place to do whatever they want.

“Who” is it at Heritage who decides these things?

It is clear the Progressives are trying to takeover the GOPe and change their narrative or just plain lie to get control of this country.

They were dumped by the hundreds last year and know they are despised by Americans, and could never get elected.

What can WE do to stop them?


69 posted on 04/30/2017 7:59:01 AM PDT by homegroan
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To: homegroan

——What can WE do to stop them?-—

I contributed to Heritage, have a membership card and a certificate.

Now I wonder?


70 posted on 04/30/2017 8:00:58 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Hillary is Ameritrash, pass it on)
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To: onyx

This is silly. He left his Senate seat to join, presumably at Heritage’s invitation, the organization. Now, they’re somehow ‘shocked’ that he brings some of his senate background with him? Sounds more like an excuse.

I had been ardently hoping for a DeMint presidential candidacy. We would finally have a conservative choice in the race. A viable conservative candidate.


71 posted on 04/30/2017 10:59:48 AM PDT by fwdude (Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
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To: homegroan

I believe that in recent years Heritage has been heavily funded by the Koch brothers.


72 posted on 04/30/2017 11:07:32 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Wow—how about this?

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/will-steve-bannon-take-over-heritage-after-jim-demint-leaves-mike-needham-wont-say/article/2621712


73 posted on 04/30/2017 1:01:33 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: onyx

Thanks for the link to Politico where the real meat is.

The article at American Thinker is largely a rehash of the Politico article.


74 posted on 04/30/2017 5:31:05 PM PDT by upchuck (Greed is a word leftists use to describe what conservatives call ambition. h/t Mike Rosen)
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To: SaraJohnson
I think Heritage is still nominally on our side, but frankly I'm not impressed. I used to get their newsletter; not much was actually being done, but a lot of glitzy tux-laden cocktail parties and "receptions."

Inside squabbles won't make much difference to the outside world.

75 posted on 05/01/2017 6:12:39 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 9YearLurker

My suspicion is that DeMint has been outed as GOP-E and Needham and younger, more aggressive conservatives are looking to be more confrontational. Koch’s libertarian support of Heritage makes me unsure of that conclusion, but that’s what it looks like at first sight.


76 posted on 05/01/2017 6:14:07 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

No, I think it is just the opposite.

DeMint’s HF was backing up the tea party wing where Trump wants to go moderate (e.g., ‘tweak and relabel’ Obamacare rather than the long-promised ‘repeal and replace with a free market solution’).


77 posted on 05/01/2017 6:41:33 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

Could be, but I know Needham hates the Chamber of Commerce and the CoC hates him. DeMint is pretty tight with the CoC. Of course, there may not be a Needham-DeMint feud at all, or it may be misunderstood/misrepresented. I’ll wait to hear from Needham and DeMint themselves.


78 posted on 05/01/2017 6:55:27 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Interesting. I am of course no fan of the CoC political priorities, especially on immigration. But Trump apparently is going in the amnesty/”comprehensive immigration reform” direction himself.


79 posted on 05/01/2017 7:16:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: jjotto

I just saw this now with top billing at Drudge, under the heading of “Mercers in IRS Showdown for Billions”:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article147454324.html


80 posted on 05/01/2017 7:19:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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